Challenging our Expectations

Monday, February 18, around Dodge St. Area, Omaha

"We're off to see the Wizard...."

I wonder if Mr. Buffett feels sometimes like a circus attraction (undoubtedly with the Greatest Show on Earth) or like a dashboard bobble-head caricature, except for the fact that I don't think his face is well-known enough to support your average Asian plastic toy manufacturer. Today I'm trying to keep an open mind and try not to get caught up in his celebrity but just to listen and learn.

The busses are warming up in the Marriott driveway, we're grabbing last minute coffee, commenting about the -1 windchill and then we're off- some of us perhaps with expectations that we will come away from this meeting with a somehow magical nugget of knowledge that will create our first billion. I also suspect all of us are eager to meet the man which so many have called "the most down to earth businessman you'll ever meet."

So what will we learn? We shall see...........